Can you believe that researchers now say that - Coffee can kill pain? According to a LONDON Reuters press release last September 25, a study states it can, but only in women. Sorry guys! Life's not always fair! "The London Times said researchers in London had asked a sample of men and women to plunge their arms into buckets of freezing cold water and keep them there as long as they could." Sounds like torture English-style to me!
Then the researchers gave the volunteers coffee in the expectation that it would ease the pain. Caffeine increases blood pressure which leads to a lowering in the perception of pain.
Increased blood-pressure equals less pain - very interesting. But is that healthy? And is that really the reason??
I propose to you that the researches had the end result right, but the cause all wrong! Its the aroma, silly! That all-encompassing, delicious, roll-your-eyes-back aroma of a good, strong cup of coffee!!
Its the aroma that stopped the pain! The patients were just too busy sniffing the java to feel anything but pure joy and anticipation at the next sip of coffee.
Now I realize that study after study has been done about the effects of coffee on the human condition and that all to often, one study cancels out the results of the study before it. http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/coffee/ The Institute for Coffee Studies can tell you all about any coffee study you ever wanted to find out about. Their scientists are members of Vanderbilt University's faculty and all of their publications appear in peer-reviewed scientific journals without censorship by funding groups, and ICS research programs are regularly reviewed by leaders in relevant scientific fields. "Large-scale population studies over the last half-century have carefully documented the health benefits of coffee consumption. In fact, recent epidemiologic studies, independently replicated, show that coffee has protective effects for suicide, liver cirrhosis, and colorectal cancer. More recently, preliminary studies suggested that coffee consumption helps reduce cardiovascular mortality and could have a positive impact on Parkinson's disease."
See what I mean! A coffee study for everything! But I think I'll take this pain-killer one to heart - of, course with MY interpretation of the cause!! How 'bout it?? Any one else have a coffee aroma story to share. Tell me I'm right - that the smell of a good cup of joe can erase anyone's pain!
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